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indication of severity in the notification e-mail subject line

Currently, all notification e-mails shows "warning" in the subject line. Customer cannot which one needs immediate action and which one is really just a warning. Since each event is classified as "warning" or "error", the corresponding notificatio...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

selective objectizer feature needed

In unfied file and object env, there is some cases that ibmobjectizer should have an option to run only some selective filesets or containers to avoid sudden additional heavy workload due to ibmobjectizer run.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

TSM VE support vSphere 5.1 tags to assign VMs into managment class

vSphere 5.1 has introduced tags. See http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vCenter-Server-51-Technical-Whitepaper.pdfFrom the doc: The enhanced VMware® vCenterTM Inventory Service (vCenter Inventory Service) optimizes client s...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Reload ssl config without restarting server

Enable reload of ssl/tsl config without restarting the server.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

timeout for a locked volume

There is a possibility of a volume that is being used by a backup session be requested by a migration process, but because it is locked the migration process can enter in a "waiting for access to input volume" state that can lasts a very long time...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

snmp event testing functionality

One of my Expert care customers contacted me and specifically requested to submit a request for him to add the funcionality to be able to test snmp in future code releases. At the moment there is no such funcionality on FS7300 and they have to cre...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Add capability to the dsmc command to set the node name, password and contact information without prompting. Add to dsmcutil?

It is very hard to trap the prompts from the dsmc command with open registration.Need way to execute the dsmc command and specify the node name, password and contact information to satisfy authentication without prompting. Another way might be wit...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

restore stg xxx preview=yes

Env TSM Srv 6.2.3.0 for Windows x86_64 SrvName: DKS006_SERVER1 Problem: The client complained the output of the "Restore Stg ...PREVIEW=YES" command. He expect like described in documentation a complete and simple list of all volumes which are req...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

unattended/silent installation required for TDP Oracle on AIX, other platforms have that functionality

An unattended (silent) installation facility is requied for Tivoli Storage Manger for Databases, Data Protection for Oracle, on AIX - as it is in place for the other platforms such as HPUX, Linux and Windows!
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Exclude VMs based on VM size/.vmdk size with dsm.opt/cloptset exclusion

With the explosion of virtual machines taking over our datacenters, using TSM for Virtual Environments is crucial to successfully protecting the data in our IT organizations. It is obvious that there is no "one size fits all" tool for protecting t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration